The town of Girê Spî in Rojava, West Kurdistan, has been cleansed of ISIS gangs that started an expansive aggression with Turkish state support last night.

The town of Girê Spî in Rojava, West Kurdistan, has been cleansed of ISIS gangs that started an expansive aggression with Turkish state support last night.

Gang groups got positioned in the region of Mentiqet-ul Îskan after infiltrating into the area from Turkish border. They launched an aggression on the areas of Îskan, Eyn Arûs, Watanî Hospital and Hemam Tirkman village at around 01:15 last night.

YPG/YPJ and asayish (public security) forces immediately responded to the attack and managed to encircle them a while later amid fierce clashes that lasted 16 hours.

Dozens of gang members were killed during the fighting, in the wake of which the town was entirely cleansed of the gang groups at 4 pm today afternoon.

Clashes between YPG/YPJ and ISIS gangs are ongoing in the area between Hemam Tirkman village and Ayn îsa town.

Earlier today, Press Office of People’s Defense Units (YPG) stated that ISIS gangs had carried out attacks aimed at the southern and eastern parts of Girê Spî from the directions of Turkey and Raqqa last night.

The gangs attacking from Turkey side had targeted the Girê Spî (Til Ebyad) town centre, and the villages of Nestel, Xwêra and Qenetra. Those attacking from the southern Raqqa side, on the other hand, had hit the villages of Genterî and Şergirat to the east of Ayn îsa and south of Silûk town.